Senate Budget Committee ranking member Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said he will “probably” raise a point of order against the two-year resurrection of more than 50 tax cuts that expired at the end of last year.

The vote could show how Washington’s priorities have shifted away from an obsession with deficits — as borrowing has dropped to the lowest level since before the recession.

It would take 60 votes to overcome a budget point of order and waive budget rules — the same number needed to overcome procedural hurdles on the overall bill. But senators would be on record violating the budget law now in place and adding to the deficit and debt as a result.

The bill would be subject to a point of order for violating the revenue levels established in the budget law authored by Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis. The measure also violates the Senate PAYGO rule because it adds to the deficit.

Unemployment extension don’t need to be attached to the tax extenders bill since the house is trying to make permanent 6 of the business tax credits that the Senate is trying to renew for 2 years so their will have to be negotiations before any final tax bill is passed and the unemployment extension could be brought up then.

http://baiine.com BAiiNE

Thank you. That’s good to know!

biggin

yea but with them always going on vacation there is no telling when that will happen the house is on vacation again all this week that is a bunch of BS

Andre Leonard

Piece of cake for these $17 trillion spendthrifts.

KDuluth

The Republicans have all signed a pledge with Grover Norquist that they would never sign a bill that raised taxes. But they will gladly sign a bill that raises national debt. This should be a clue that they are not at all Conservative, but actually radical, and that they are no longer interested in representing voters. Over half the members of Congress are millionaires. Maybe if we just voted all the millionaires out, regardless of party, we would have our government back again.

mrmano_0

Republicans hate American and the American people.
Unless you’re a millionaire who hates taxes.

The modern Republican party is America’s greatest threat foreign or domestic.

Mark

you really are not uneducated in foreign and domestic policies….that’s okay…the US needs ditch diggers too…make sure you use the left-handed shovel….what a dupe!!

mrmano_0

You’re really not educated at all.

Republicans are America’s greatest threat foreign or domestic.

Mark

and..you make a really, really bad parrott..

mrmano_0

And you’re a really, really horrible little troll.

Mark

You are ingnorant. You are apathetic. You live in a fantasy world. Your ideology is factless. Your ideas are factless. You are trapped intellectually. Trolls do not exist. Trolls are a myth. Move along, weak person..

mrmano_0

You’re a sad little troll who should have someplace else to be but you are miserable and alone.

Mark

Trolls are not sad. trolls can not be alone. trolls do not exist. trolls are myths. Trolls are not miserable. You are miserable. You stated so. the GOP controls your life. You stated so. You have no control. you are weak. you are not learning. You offer nothing

mrmano_0

you’re a troll and you know it clap your claws dirty little troll.

You are less than nothing.

Mark

You are silly. You have no credibility. You fail to learn. You offer nothing. Trolls are myths. trolls do not exist. You live in a fantsy world. You are very familar. Your ignorance and apathy expose you. You are a racist and a bigot. Move along, child.

mrmano_0

clearly trolls are not myth because here you are dirty little troll.

You’re an evil little troll who is full of hate and lies.

Mark

You are always wrong. You are always incorrect. You are a bigot and a racist. You offer nothing. You fail to learn. You are a failure. You have no skills. You are miserable per your own words. You have no control over your life per your own words. Please move along. You are depressing. You offer society nothing but leeching.

mrmano_0

I’m right about you being a mindless little hateful troll.

Mark

You are wrong again. You continue failing to learn. Trolls are not hateful. Trolls can not hate. trolls can not be little or big. trolls can not be mindful or mindless. Trolls do not exist. you continue to make no sense. You are worthless. You have given control of your life to others. you are weak. you have no will. Please. move along, broken fool

mrmano_0

silly hateful little troll says what?

Mark

You are silly. Your ignorant ideology is exposed for all to see. Your racism and bigotry have no place here. You are an embarrassment.

mrmano_0

hello sad little troll.

You’re hateful nature must have eaten your cold dark heart long ago. Now you shill for evil.

Such a sad little hateful troll you are.

Mark

Trolls do not exist. they are myths. you struggle with reality. trolls can not shill. trolls can not be sad, little or hateful. They are not real. You struggle with learning. You are a hypocrite. you are intolerant. you are hateful. you are the person you rail against. you are a fool for all to see.

mrmano_0

Sure trolls exist. You are one.
Hateful little troll.

Mark

You are not sure. You are a fool You are uneducated. You believe in falsehoods. You have no facts. You spread hate and vitriol through, racism, bigotry and ignorance. You refuse to educate yourself. you are meaningless to society You offer stupidity.

mrmano_0

Everyone can see you little troll. Go back under the bridge you live under.

Mark

No one can see a troll. There is no bridge. trolls do not exist. you continue to embarrass yourself living in a fantasy world. based on falsehoods. You are frustrated. you are broke. you are unskilled. you are uneducated. you refuse to help yourself and always blame others for your condition.YOU ARE EXACTLY WHERE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE.

mrmano_0

We can see that you’re an evil little troll. Go now scurry away, back under your bridge little troll. Shoo

Mark

You fail to learn. You are a failure. You blame others for your problems. You are weak. You do nothing to help yourself. You are a leech. You are the problem you rail against. you are meaningless. you have no value to society.

mrmano_0

You sad miserable troll. You must be so hungry to mistake me for a leech. Go back under your bridge and you will.find yourself some leeches to eat for supper.

The modern Democratic party is America’s greatest threat foreign or domestic

mrmano_0

You’re such a sad little troll.

mrmano_0

democrats are completely responsible for this unemployment extension mess. Harry reid prevented the extension from being added to the budget. Democratic Senators whittled the Republican proposal down to 5 months from the 12 month months Republicans originally proposed.

Harry reid has kept millions of Americans from the help they desperately need and deserve.

That’s all Democrats that have created this misery.

mrmano_0

You have truly sunk to a new low troll.

mrmano_0

You are really starting to make me feel pretty important. That a troll like you would go through so much effort to imitate me.

The life of a troll like you must be really so sad.

mrmano_0

You must be under your troll bridge now you dirty little troll.

mrmano_0

democrats are completely responsible.for this unemployment extension mess. Harry reid prevented the extension from being added to the budget. Democratic Senators whittled the Republican proposal down to 5 months from the 12 month months Republicans originally proposed.

Harry reid has kept millions of Americans from the help they desperately need and deserve.

The GOP/Tea Party is going to try impeach any president who is also a Democrat. Impeachment has been in the wind since Obama was elected. They just needed to find something – anything – to hang it on. And here I thought it was going to be Bengasi.

Offset it or don’t enact it. Expanding the deficit is never acceptable, regardless whether this is unemployment insurance or tax cuts.

Nemesis4Life

It’s funny…I’ve been arguing this since December. PEOPLE wake up…didn’t you read “Reid will not allow amendments” so now tell me that the Democrats are trying to help us and are for the American People. He did the same thing when he passed the unemployment bill and now he is doing it here as well. This is just a way to get all of your votes come election time. They want to take all the power in our government and then Obama can enact into law that a President can be in Office forever. Then we are stuck with him. A war is coming and they are preparing for it…are you? And…Obama will veto the bill if it’s not exactly what he wants…why hasn’t he been saying attach the Unemployment bill to it? BECAUSE THEY DON’T WANT IT TO BE PASSED…if it is then they lose your vote.

And honestly…how is the unemployment bill that was passed actually creating jobs for us? Mine will end in November (the EUC) and then what will I do? Oh that’s right just go on Welfare and become more dependent on the government and my fellow tax payers. People never see the big picture…yes we are losing everything we own, but it’s just prolonging the inevitable. Come November I would lose it anyways without having a job. And as we all know all to well…there are no jobs! And they only extended the bill until the end of May…hello, what do I do then? They will eventually have to do what the Republicans want once everyone stops siding with them…

And if you reply to this…I’M NOT A REPUBLICAN, I’M NOT A DEMOCRAT…I vote for the best candidate!

GreeneWolfe

Supposedly we could not afford an unemployment extension for 3 million jobless americans, but WE CAN AFFORD A tax cut……?

Advocate

Between 3-4Million cut-off from benefits, another 75,000 added weekly and 200,000 war veterans. Extended unemployment benefits need to be extended immediately.

John Boehner:
Phone: (202) 225-0600
(#1 to leave a message #2 to speak with his assistant)

Matthew Pieri

How can Harry Reid DENY allowing the addition of UEI that he voted for to this bill….his Democratic colors are showing…I despise both parties for this mess.

mrmano_0

Republicans have been abusing the amendment process which is why the Democratic sponsored veterans benefit bill failed in February.

Republicans are the reason that the unemployment extension has not passed.
Republicans have put the welfare of the Koch brothers over that of millions of Americans, hundreds of thousands of whom are veterans.

Paul Ryan keep the extension out of the budget. Senate Republicans whittled the bill down from 12 months to 5. John Boehner has kept the bill from being voted on in the House.

The modern Democratic party is America’s greatest threat foreign or domestic

mrmano_0

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery you dirty little troll.

mrmano_0

democrats are completely responsible.for this unemployment extension mess. Harry reid prevented the extension from being added to the budget. Democratic Senators whittled the Republican proposal down to 5 months from the 12 month months Republicans originally proposed.

Harry reid has kept millions of Americans from the help they desperately need and deserve.

That’s all Democrats that have created this misery.

mrmano_0

Such a sad little hateful troll you are. You can’t be me. You’d have to be a real person and not the troll you are.

mrmano_0

Republicans hate the truth. I even have my own personal troll who attempts to immulate me of all people. But, because the troll is conservative and twisted it can only lie.

We all know the party who called the long term.unemployed “lazy” and “takers”. The party that has held up the unemployment insurance extension for the Keystone XL pipeline.

That has not been Democrats or the President.

Republicans are America’s greatest threat, foreign or domestic.

mrmano_0

Reid and Senate Dems block attachment of EUC to tax extenders bill…nice….demos are showing true colors..even though Demos will sign off on TE bill…….

The Roadster

In 2012, the Federal deficit was three times higher than any deficit incurred during George W. Bush?s two Presidential terms.

YONATAN C

IT’S TIME THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO CLEAN HOUSE, AND VOTE THESE WORTHLESS POLITICIANS OUT OF PUBLIC OFFICE. THEY HAVE SHOWN US THAT THEY NO LONGER BELONG THERE, BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT REPRESENTING US ANY LONGER, BUT ONLY THEMSELVES AND POLITICAL PARTY.

WHAT ARE THE DEMOCRATS PREPARED TO DO ABOUT THE UNEMPLOYMENT EXTENSION BILL? DO THEY PLAN TO WASH THEIR HANDS OF THE WHOLE ISSUE? THERE ARE STILL MORE THAN 2.6 MILLION UNEMPLOYED FAMILES WITHOUT ANY MEANS TO SUPPORT THEMSELVES SINCE LAST DECEMBER. THEY NEED YOUR HELP PEOPLE. THE REPUBLICANS HAVE ALREADY TURNED THEIR BACKS AGAINST THEM, AND HAVE TRIED EVERY DELAYING TACTIC KNOWN TO MAN, SO THE BILL COULD NOT BE PASSED IN TIME. THESE MILLIONS OF FAMILIES, FOR THE PAST FIVE MONTHS HAVE SUFFERED EVICTIONS, HOME FORECLOSURES, BANKRUPTCY, AND HOMELESSNESS, BECAUSE OF YOUR LACK OF COMPASSION AND HUMAN DECENCY. THE UKRAINE HAS RECENTLY BEEN GIVEN BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN FOREIGN AID, WHAT ABOUT THE POOR AND UNEMPLOYED IN THIS COUNTRY? THE PEOPLE WILL REMEMBER THIS ISSUE IN THE COMING ELECTIONS, AND IT WILL BE OUR TUEN TO VOTE, AND TO VOTE MANY OF YOU OUT OF OFFICE.

YONATAN C

THE REPUBLICAN SENATE HAS DENIED MORE THAN 2.6 MILLION UNEMPLOYED FAMILIES, WITHOUT UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS, AN EXTENSION THAT WAS PROMISED, AND NEEDED BY THESE POOR FAMILIES. FOR THE PAST FIVE MONTHS THE REPUBLICANS HAVE HELD THE EXTENSION BILL HOSTAGE IN THE SENATE, FOR POLITICAL LEVERAGE. MILLIONS OF FAMILIES HAVE HAD TO FACE EVICTIONS, HOME FORECLOSURES, PERSONAL BANKRUPTCIES, AND HOMELESSNESS, WHILE THE REPUBLICANS CONTINUE USING THEM AS BARGAINING CHIPS, TO FURTHER THEIR PARTY’S POLITICAL AGENDA. THEY HAVE SHOWN UTTER CONTEMPT FOR THE POOR AND UNRMPLOYED IN THIS COUNTRY. THEY HAVE DEMONSTRATED A TOTAL LACK OF COMMON DECENCY AND HUMAN COMPASSION FOR THOSE IN DIRE NEED IN THIS COUNTRY. THEY HAVE DELIBERATELY USED STALLING TACTICS, AND HAVE MADE EVERY ATTEMPT AT DELAYING THE VOTING PROCESS, FOR THE BILL TO EXPIRE, THEREFORE NOT BE PASSED. WHEN BILLIONS OF TAX PAYER’S DOLLARS HAVE ME APPROVED FOR THE UKRAINE, THEY HAVE DECIDED NOT TO HELP OUR OWN PEOPLE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY.IT’STIME TO CLEAN HOUSE, AND VOTE THEM ALL OUT OF OFFICE. THEYDON’T DESERVE TO REPRESNT THE PEOPLE ANY LONGER.

YONATAN C

HOW MANY MORE LIVES WILL THE REPUBLICANS DESTROY??

WHAT ABOUT THE UNEMPLOYMENT EXTENSION BILL??? THE REPUBLICANS HAVE FAILED THE MORE THAN 2.6 MILLION OF UNEMPLOYED FAMILIES, WHO HAVE BEEN WITHOUT UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS SINCE LAST DECEMBER. THE REPUBLICANS HAVE INTENTIONALLY DELAYED, AND STALLED OVER THE PAST FIVE MONTHS SO THAT THE EXTENSION BILL WILL BECOME TOO LATE TO PASS. THEY HAVE SHOWN A TOTAL LACK OF COMPASSION AND COMMON DECENCY, TOWARDS THESE MILLIONS OF STRUGGLING FAMILIES.

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